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Zacharias
chapter 1
1
In the
eighth month, in the second year of king Darius, the word of the Lord came to
Zacharias the son of Barachias, the son of Addo, the prophet, saying:
2 The Lord hath been exceeding angry with your fathers.
3 And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord of
hosts: Turn ye to me, saith the Lord of hosts: and I will turn to you, saith
the Lord of hosts.
4 Be not as your fathers, to whom the former prophets
have cried, saying: Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Turn ye from your evil ways,
and from your wicked thoughts: but they did not give ear, neither did they
hearken to me, saith the Lord.
5 Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, shall
they live always?
6 But yet my words, and my ordinances, which I gave in
charge to my servants the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers, and
they returned, and said: As the Lord of hosts thought to do to us according to
our ways, and according to our devices, so he hath done to us.
7 In the four and twentieth day of the eleventh month
which is called Sabath, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came
to Zacharias the son of Barachias, the son of Addo, the prophet, saying:
8 I saw by night, and behold a man riding upon a red
horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees, that were in the bottom: and behind
him were horses, red, speckled, and white.
9 And I said: What are these, my Lord ? and the angel
that spoke in me, said to me: I will shew thee what these are:
10 And the man that stood among the myrtle trees
answered, and said: These are they, whom the Lord hath sent to walk through the
earth.
11 And they answered the angel of the Lord, that stood
among the myrtle trees, and said: We have walked through the earth, and behold
all the earth is inhabited, and is at rest.
12 And the angel of the Lord answered, and said: O Lord
of hosts, how long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem, and on the cities of
Juda, with which thou hast been angry? this is now the seventieth year.
13 And the Lord answered the angel, that spoke in me,
good words, comfortable words.
14 And the angel that spoke in me, said to me: Cry
thou, saying: Thus saith the Lord of hosts: I am zealous for Jerusalem, and
Sion with a great zeal.
15 And I am angry with a great anger with the wealthy
nations: for I was angry a little, but they helped forward the evil.
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord: I will return to
Jerusalem in mercies: my house shall be built in it, saith the Lord of hosts:
and the building line shall be stretched forth upon Jerusalem.
17 Cry yet, saying: Thus saith the Lord of hosts: My
cities shall yet flow with good things : and the Lord will yet comfort Sion,
and he will yet choose Jerusalem.
18 And I lifted up my eyes, and saw: and behold four
horns.
19 And I said to the angel that spoke to me: What are
these? And he said to me: These are the horns that have scattered Juda, and
Israel, and Jerusalem.
20 And the Lord shewed me four smiths.
21 And I said: What come these to do? and he spoke,
saying: These are the horns which have scattered Juda every man apart, and none
of them lifted up his head: and these are come to fray them, to cast down the
horns of the nations, that have lifted up the horn upon the land of Juda to
scatter it.
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